Word: chateauful
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...Liberty Boys, the Nick Carter series. But when it comes to houses, Kirby acts the tycoon. For fishing he keeps the Gaspé camp; for winter quail hunting he has a ten-room Civil War Plantation house on a lake in South Carolina; for football weekends he bought Chateau Chavaniac, a replica of Lafayette's villa in France, at Easton, Pa., frequently flies in a planeload of friends for Lafayette College games. He has an 1812 mansion in Morristown, NJ., which he has converted into an office, commutes to Manhattan twice a week. He lives on a 64-acre...
...closeted themselves for two days in the elegant presidential chateau at Rambouillet 30 miles outside Paris. Security was so tight that a small crowd was chased away from the fence, and not even the menus for the meals were published. Once Adenauer slipped out for an hour's visit to the great Gothic cathedral at Chartres. For the rest of the time the two men talked and walked, engaged in earnest conversation with barely a handful of officials present...
...Ponies, No Yachts. With all his wealth, Fairchild leads an expensively simple life: "I have no yachts, no polo ponies, no house on the Riviera." But he does have a ten-room chateau-type second home at Huntington, L.I., where he plays tennis on a $25,000 enclosed court. Fairchild is a friend of and frequent host to jazz musicians, recently threw a party for Old Friend Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael. At such parties, Fairchild likes to get into his control booth and record performances, mix drinks at his bar (he drinks little himself), or rustle up a quick meal...
...landed in Hollywood with a little money, less English and no job. For several weeks he lived in an empty ladies' room at the Chateau Marmont ("Just me and six small toilets"), then shared the digs of a Berlin buddy named Peter Lorre. Rent...
...cinema. But if Billy did that, he might find himself playing the lead role in a terrifying "opener": big director wins fame and fortune by making solidly entertaining movies, suddenly gets ideals and loses everything on one big flop, winds up living in the ladies' room in the Chateau Marmont...